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Hirschboeck, Kate; Eiler White, Melissa; Brannegan, Andrew; Reade, Frances – WestEd, 2022
The California Teacher Residency Grant Program provided essential, one-time funding to jump-start new and to expand existing teacher residencies, which are pathways into the teaching profession that integrate a residents' coursework with a yearlong placement in the classroom of an expert teacher. In spring of 2021, WestEd collected data through…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Grants, Cooperating Teachers, Mentors
Takahashi, Sola; White, Melissa; Donahue, Corey – WestEd, 2019
This brief offers lessons learned from California State University teacher preparation programs engaged in using data to inform improvement efforts. The authors consider teacher preparation programs as systems that can undergo continuous, data-driven improvement through an improvement science approach. Teacher preparation programs typically have…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Improvement, Partnerships in Education, Feedback (Response)
WestEd, 2013
This report documents the work of one component of a larger research effort. The objective of the project is to understand what schools of education are doing to prepare teachers to use data in their practice. The issue is multifaceted, complex, and systemic. Schools of education do not act alone to suddenly introduce courses on data-driven…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, School Surveys
WestEd, 2013
This report documents the work of one component of a larger research effort. The objective of the project is to understand what schools of education are doing to prepare teachers to use data in their practice. The issue is multifaceted, complex, and systemic. Schools of education do not act alone to suddenly introduce courses on data-driven…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, School Surveys
Hess, Frederick M.; Rotherham, Andrew J.; Walsh, Kate – WestEd, 2005
In recent years, the debate over teacher quality and preparation has gained new urgency. Competing groups of partisans have dominated this debate: one seemingly eager to assail the nation's education schools and to suggest that there is an insufficiently defined body of professional teaching knowledge, the other committed to advancing…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Qualifications